LIST OF PERSONS composing the crew of the ship Wilmington & Liverpool Packet of New Bedford, whereof John Briggs is master bound for Bremen

NAMES	PLACES OF BIRTH	PLACES OF RESIDENCE	OF WHAT COUNTRY CITIZENS OR SUBJECTS	DESCRIPTION OF THESE PERSONS
				AGES	HEIGHT		COMPLEXION	HAIR
					FEET	INCHES
William Ross	New Bedford	Massachusetts	United States	23	five	six	light	brown
David Adams	Chilmark	"	"	twenty one	five	six & 1/4	dark	brown
Edward Manchester	Tiverton	Rhode Island	"	twenty one	five	six & 3/4	"	"
Leonard Skiff	New Bedford	Massachusetts	"	thirteen	four	seven & 1/2	light	"
John McCollum	Chilmark	"	"	seventeen	five	eight	"	"
William H. Crocker	New Bedford	"	"	seventeen	five	seven & 1/2	dark	"
Charles Mayhew	Chilmark	"	"	sixteen	five	six	light	"
Jacob Long	Northampton	Virginia	"	20	five	ten	copper	black
George A. Hatch	"	"	"	twenty	five	nine	light	dark
Matthew Howard	Fair Haven	Massachusetts	"	sixteen	five	two & 1/2	"	brown
James Read
John W. Ellis
William Reynnard

District of New Bedford Sept 22nd 1824 Port of Fairhaven I hereby certify that I have examined the returned men whose names are on the above list & find they are all returned in sd ship [etc.]

William Reynnard prob. William Hathaway Reynard, son of John & Mary, b. 6 Feb 1808 (NB vrs, "from the William H. Reynard family Bible, now in the possession of Walter Thomas Almy of New Bedford") called Capt. William H. Reynard on wife's gravestone, New Bedford. Marr. Emily Howland Russell 9 Aug 1831.(NB vrs)
Matthew Howard was a nephew of John Briggs, b. 12 Mar 1805, New Bedford (now Fairhaven, Fairhaven vrs), son of William and Diadama (Briggs) Howard. William Howard was the second cousin of John's wife Elizabeth Jenney. Matthew m. Deborah Hamblen Jenney, 22 Feb 1827, Fairhaven (vrs). Deborah was the niece of Elizabeth Jenney, daughter of Abisha and Phebe (Jenney) Jenney. His age is the same as it was given on the 1821 crewlist of WLP. He was actually 18.

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